[Info-vax] Moving away from OpenVMS

[abrsvc]

On Wednesday, May 23, 2012 11:21:07 AM UTC-4, Paul Sture wrote:
> On Wed, 23 May 2012 10:40:21 -0400, John Reagan wrote:
> 
> > Again, don't forget that you need BLISS and C just for the OS and you'll
> > want all the rest of the compilers for the customer base.  GEM's old x86
> > target was 32-bit only, just did the things that Visual Fortran
> > required, and generated Windows object files and Windows debugging info.
> >  All of that would need fixing.  And switching to some other code
> > generator (gcc, LLVM, open64) might work but I'd have to think about it.
> 
> ISTR some standard utilities were written in Pascal and possibly other 
> languages.  I used to see the occasional stack dump which revealed the 
> language.
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Paul Sture

Monitor is a good example.  It was written in PL/I and on alpha runs as a "VEST'd" image.

Dan